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In early schools students sat on long benches and faced a long narrow table. By the 1880's students sat at individual desks with boys on one side and girls on the other with younger kids at the font of the room and older in the back.

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In the 1800s schools where very crowded and cold with teachers that didn't know very much about the subject that they were teaching. Mostly rich white boy went to school but the only went to school for ten weeks. Horace Mann didn't like that the schools were like that so he changed it eventually people payed taxes for schools, there was special training for teachers and women and African Americans were able to attend school. The kids in schools played games outside before school and when school started the teachers would ring a bell and if the kids couldn't hear it and didn't get to class pm time then they who'd risk punishment

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students learned to read from the bible and had to memorize long passages and write them down to learn penmanship

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Testing: Testing was very different then you only took one test and it was in eighth grade so you could move on through the education. The quizzes were also taken in front of the class and it was anything but quite!

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Furniture: for a while students would sit on three-legged stools. Eventually they moved to narrow tables in front of long benches. They often had parents make the pine or oak benches. By the 1800's they each had individual desks that were bolted into the floor. The girls were always on one side and the boys on another. Eventually they had portable desks and would no longer sit in rows. This helped them be able to work on their work with other students and cooperate.

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Teachers were not very educated and just came in off of the streets.

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Discipline

If Students misbehaved the would

be beat with a wooden paddle, a wooden branch, or a cane.

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In the 1870's the technology schools had was very little. The abacus was a type of calculator, and the stereoscope was a picture viewing device

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Homework:

Only the wealthy were able to afford books at home. This sent many children home without books and they were only able to use the limited resources from the school. The children didn't have any homework because they didn't have books at home to work with.

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They used bells to start the school day . Teachers would stand at the door and ring the bell.

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Homework - kids back then had little to no homework because they had work and chores so most of them had to learn a lot at school with limited learning resources, such as books

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Many teachers were not educated and they got paid very little. They also had to teach 60 children in 1 room. They had hardly any teaching supplies and many of the students weren't the same age.

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In the 1800's the only book used in schools was the bible.

The first textbook was the New England Primer used between 1700 and 1843.The most popular schoolbook in the 19th century was the McGuffey Reader

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There were no schools for girls. only boys went to school, but most of them didn't go to school either. only wealthy families could afford to send their children to school. Kids that did go to school went to either a private school or they had a private tutor. As public schools were made, many children, especially white boys went to school. However, sometimes the public schools had 1 room and had 60 kids in that one room. Also, an African Americans was admitted in a school and no one was happy. People pulled their kids from school because they didn't want their kids to be around African Americans.

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During the Education Reform people worked to get women and African Americans rights to get an education.

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The teachers were in charge of making ink in the counrty it was a very long process and sharpening quills to how the student likes.

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There were no schools for women or African Americans before the education reform.

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School lunch

Students brought their lunch in a metal bucket. They could talk with their friends while they ate.

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Discipline in the 18th century at schools included being hit with a wooden cane, whipped with a leather strap, and threatened with a large paddle. These disciplinary techniques were used to motivate children to behave in school.

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Most children did not have homework because they worked on farms. Also most children did not have books and learning took place at school only. Books that were available were kept in a leather strap

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Blacks and women were not allowed in schools

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I learned that when the kids were in school they would have to bring there lunch in a bucket which was not very nutritious and didn't help them concentrate during the day.

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They wrote on prices of slate and they then started using pencils.

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African Amercians and girls were not allowed in schools. Only the wealthy could afford books.

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In the 18th century discipline in schools was very harsh. Teachers used leather straps, hickory switch, and narrow branches of green wood. The wooden paddle was often place behind the teachers desk in plain view for the kids to see, with the paddle in view teachers hoped it would keep kids in line.

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Teachers didn't have a good education and they weren't being paid well

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Horace Mann worked hard for what he believed in education.

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Post what you learned about the Education Reform and/or schools in the 1800s. You can add a picture if you want.